Where did all my memory go?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 20:17:26 UTC 2006
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:35:55PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:04:05AM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> [...rpm -Va...]
> > What's using up all the memory?
>
> File caching, obviously. Current VM is not that good at handling
> streaming a bunch of files through an application. Well, it
> agressively caches the file for the application itself, too bad it
> doesn't care about them anymore after one load, and meanwhile swaps
> out whatever is on the computer too.
His looks more like a leak.
12535365 size-32 slabs is definitly an abnormal situation.
Dave
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